{"id":506247,"date":"2026-01-05T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/506247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:47:11","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-skipper-gets-a-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/506247\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Skipper gets a new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of urgency I\u2019ve never seen,\u201d said Kansas City Councilman Wes Rogers. \u201cI\u2019m confident that we\u2019re going to get a really good package for the Royals.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Chiefs\u2019 thing was a wake up call,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve spoken with the governor\u2019s office, I\u2019ve spoken with House leadership. I think the focus is not so much on north or south as it is just getting it done and keeping the Royals here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Missouri House Speaker Jonathan Patterson, a Lee\u2019s Summit Republican, echoed Rogers\u2019 confidence in an interview, but did not provide a deadline for when he thinks the team could announce their preferred location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNow is not the time to be giving ultimatums,\u201d said Patterson. \u201cBut I think we can get a deal that\u2019s good for both the teams and for Missouri taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of urgency I\u2019ve never seen,\u201d said Kansas City Councilman Wes Rogers. \u201cI\u2019m confident that we\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,38557],"class_list":{"0":"post-506247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-royals-rumblings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115842806559622894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}